Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police barriers and halted the royal car on eight separate occasions. Men & women clutched Philip's arm, tried to shake his hand, patted the royal shoulders and tossed confetti and flags into the car. After a lunch at Sydney University, the duke was flustered by a posse of wolf-whistling teenagers, who oohed: "Isn't he nice? . . . He's beautiful." In the evening, instead of dancing, many of the 2,000 guests at the Lord Mayor's ball stood in a ring around the dais, just staring at the blushing Queen. Elizabeth's smiles gradually...
...this time the word had spread that something extraordinary was centered in Tempo 3. As confidence in Rickover grew in the Navy, a second nuclear submarine, the Sea Wolf, was scheduled, and General Electric was commissioned to build a different reactor for it. Named SIR (Submarine Intermediate Reactor), it will use neutrons of "intermediate" speed and molten sodium as a working fluid. It is now taking shape near Schenectady...
...spite of all the uproar, he had not spent much of his thinking time on the selection board. Too much was happening. The Nautilus was growing fast. So was the Sea Wolf. In the blank-walled building on the Idaho desert, a crucial moment was approaching. The prototype reactor was almost complete; preliminary tests had been encouraging. On March 31 the AEC announced that the reactor had "gone critical." In AEC language, this means that it was producing power...
...conception of destroyers as naval cavalry. This concept assumed decisive battles between surface fleets and saw the destroyers plunging ahead to close range, firing their torpedoes at enemy battleships and wheeling away, their thin sides throbbing, under protective smoke screens. The destroyers learned to deal with submarine wolf packs, planes and a host of unpredictables, including even the need to fight in the old cavalry fashion...
...Wolf Packs & Traps. The destroyer was a sound fighting ship; the question was how to use it. At first, mistakes were made. While the destroyers went out futilely chasing U-boats in the Atlantic, the U-boats had a field day sinking unescorted Allied ships. The picture changed with improved technique (e.g., the improved use of radar, coordination of air and surface weapons) and the firm policy of destroyer-escorted convoys. Soon, hunter-killer teams of destroyers, destroyer-escorts and carrier-based aircraft had turned the tables on the U-boat wolf packs. By 1945, two U-boats were being...